"Gun Brothers" is a low budget black and white western that turns out to be an rather enjoyable 79 minutes. It's one of those good brother/bad brother stories starring Buster Crabbe as Chad Santee and Neville Brand as his brother Jubal.
Chad Santee has just mustered out of the cavalry and is on his way to meet his brother Jubal who has promised him a partnership in his cattle ranch. Along the way he meets saloon girl Rose Fargo (Ann Robinson) and is immediately smitten in spite of two bit gambler Blackjack Silk (James Seay) who also has designs on her.
Later Chad goes to meet Jubal but finds that he is an outlaw leading a murderous gang known as the Nighthawks. Chad tries to convince Jubal to mend his ways but is unsuccessful. Jubal's sinister Indian cook Meeteetse (Lita Milan) implicates Chad in a recent Stage hold-up and he and Rose are forced to flee both from the law and Jubal and his gang that includes the villainous "Shawnee" (Michael Ansara). They go to the camp of Chad's friend Yellowstone Kelly (Walter Sande) where Chad enters into a fur-trading partnership with him.
Jubal meanwhile, thinks that Chad has double crossed him and sets out with Shawnee to exact his revenge.
Buster Crabbe never missed an opportunity to take off his shirt and show off his build. This film is no exception. He always kept himself in good shape having been an Olympic athlete in the 1932 games. The scene in the saloon when he tries to impress Rose is hilarious. Crabbe is smacking his lips while drooling over her like a lecherous dirty old man. And there's that buckskin shirt. He looks ridiculous in that costume and thank heavens he leaves it behind when he and Rose run for their lives.
There's quite a list of recognizable "B" western stalwarts in the cast. Roy Barcroft, a perennial bad guy gets to play the sheriff in this one, former sidekick Slim Pickens plays Moose McLain a trapper, Lane Bradford and Harry Lauter deputies and William Fawcett and Ric Vallin in brief bits. 6"2" Dorothy Ford is along as Picken's wife and Dan White is Jonathon Logan, a preacher.
Remade scene for scene with the same characters in 1961 with James Brown and Gregg Palmer as the brothers.
Chad Santee has just mustered out of the cavalry and is on his way to meet his brother Jubal who has promised him a partnership in his cattle ranch. Along the way he meets saloon girl Rose Fargo (Ann Robinson) and is immediately smitten in spite of two bit gambler Blackjack Silk (James Seay) who also has designs on her.
Later Chad goes to meet Jubal but finds that he is an outlaw leading a murderous gang known as the Nighthawks. Chad tries to convince Jubal to mend his ways but is unsuccessful. Jubal's sinister Indian cook Meeteetse (Lita Milan) implicates Chad in a recent Stage hold-up and he and Rose are forced to flee both from the law and Jubal and his gang that includes the villainous "Shawnee" (Michael Ansara). They go to the camp of Chad's friend Yellowstone Kelly (Walter Sande) where Chad enters into a fur-trading partnership with him.
Jubal meanwhile, thinks that Chad has double crossed him and sets out with Shawnee to exact his revenge.
Buster Crabbe never missed an opportunity to take off his shirt and show off his build. This film is no exception. He always kept himself in good shape having been an Olympic athlete in the 1932 games. The scene in the saloon when he tries to impress Rose is hilarious. Crabbe is smacking his lips while drooling over her like a lecherous dirty old man. And there's that buckskin shirt. He looks ridiculous in that costume and thank heavens he leaves it behind when he and Rose run for their lives.
There's quite a list of recognizable "B" western stalwarts in the cast. Roy Barcroft, a perennial bad guy gets to play the sheriff in this one, former sidekick Slim Pickens plays Moose McLain a trapper, Lane Bradford and Harry Lauter deputies and William Fawcett and Ric Vallin in brief bits. 6"2" Dorothy Ford is along as Picken's wife and Dan White is Jonathon Logan, a preacher.
Remade scene for scene with the same characters in 1961 with James Brown and Gregg Palmer as the brothers.